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Opposition demands Abe’s resignation over possible tax hike deferral
Opposition parties yesterday called for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to resign should he break his promise to implement the 2 per cent consumption tax increase as planned in April 2017. Main opposition Democratic Party acting Secretary General Tetsuro Fukuyama said during a NHK television programme that Abe and his cabinet should resign if he does not fulfil his pledge, and pushes the tax increase back to October 2019. Officials from the Japanese Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party backed Fukuyama’s demand. During the same NHK programme, Liberal Democratic Party acting Secretary General Yasufumi Tanahashi ... (full story)